HOUSING: Greenbelt

Of all the
agencies established by the New Deal since 1933, Resettlement
Administration, headed by Rexford Guy Tugwell, was possibly the most
spectacular. Of all R. A.'s grandiose ventures, most spectacular was
Greenbelt, irreverently known as "Tugwelltown," a model suburban
town seven miles outside of Washington at Berwyn, Md.

In Washington one day last week, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace made two announcements. One was that R. A., moribund
since Dr. Tugwell resigned last winter, was at last officially dead. The
other was that Greenbelt was at last ready for occupancy...